Learn to play grace notes on the snare drum with the virtual drummer.

PC drumming lesson on flam rudiment and flamacue with score.

This lesson dedicated to snare drum rudiments introduces the Flams: Flam Accent, Flam Paradiddle, Flamacue and Flam Tap.

The Flam, in musical theory and writing, doesn't have a definite value; it can be described as a double stroke made by a first hand weak stroke closely followed by an accented, stronger second hand stroke. It's a grace note, represented in drum charts by a smaller note with a tie put just before the principal note. For a correct execution of a Flam, the stick that plays the weaker stroke starts from about one inch from the drumhead, and the stick that plays the principal stroke starts from a superior height.

In the exercises of the drum sheet you should play regular figures alternating the right and the left hand, and once you have mastered them, try to insert flams in your free improvisations.
You can continue studying of grace notes on the snare drum with the PC drumming tutorial dedicated to Drags, other essential rudiments of drum and percussion technique.

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